http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/ Engadget Comments for Google signs PowerMeter partnership with The Energy Detective, lets everyone play along http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/If I save the planet any more, a new one will magically appear. I really am that good.]]>Oct 6th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/
My electric bill is generally $250-300 per month. If this could help me shave down some of that bill by making it easier to see what leaving those lights on and bathroom fans running was costing, it could quickly pay for itself.

$0.18 per kWhr. Ouch.]]>Oct 6th 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/
Do your homework.]]>Oct 6th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 6th 2009 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/
Have you tried installing one of these? It's a bear, and then you have to keep reading numbers all day long to know what is going on. So it's a bear to install and a bear to read and understand. Two days into this and you would be yearning that you never spent your money on something like this. I know, I am a victim! There are better things coming in to the market. Just wait and you will instinctively know what you really should put your money into.

SS]]>Oct 6th 2009 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Oct 7th 2009 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/Some of us has ZERO interest in what we do at home being put in public places.]]>Oct 6th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/
They have a new version, promises everything the first did. How true is this? Call in, they say on it absolutely works this time. Great, care to give me an upgrade path since I bought your first gen paperweight? No, because its useless to us, we would end up eating the cost. Great, so now they expect me to eat it and hope that they can deliver the second time on what they promised to give the first time?

Not sure I care to go down that road. Shame, I install home automation systems that this could work well with. If it does as promised. I am sure there will be other options soon]]>Oct 15th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/google-signs-powermeter-partnership-with-the-energy-detective-o/
The downfall of this approach is in the name: Energy Detective. You have to do some detective work to actually figure out what is causing any particular activity you see on the device. That might be walking around turning things on and off, but more likely the true culprits are harder to find and coming on when you don't even know about them. You CAN wire this to an individual breaker, but that involves getting BACK into the electrical panel - something most people are not too comfortable with. I'm pretty handy and had no problems with it, and have already identified a couple things that will pay for the device in the next year. Studies show that just being aware of your usage on a regular basis saves most people 10-15% - so do your own math.

I think the bottom line is that this is not an ideal solution for making your home energy efficient. But it is probably the best thing current available to the average person short of spending a lot of $$ to have a pro come in and do things for you. ]]>Oct 19th 2009 11:15AM